Seattle officially submits application for NHL team

Mayor Jenny Durkan tweeted Tuesday afternoon that OVG submitted an application for an expansion franchise to the NHL.

OVG is the group that won the contract to rebuild KeyArena, with an NHL team being a future goal.

In December, the NHL said it would accept an expansion application and granted permission for a season-ticket drive, which hasn’t yet begun.

“That doesn’t mean we have granted an expansion team,” commissioner Gary Bettman said last month. “We have agreed as a league to take and consider an expansion application and to let them run in the next few months a season-ticket drive.”